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Find cheap flights from Sydney to South Africa from $860

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Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours

Johannesburg
Johannesburg2 stops$1,758
Cape Town
Cape Town2 stops$1,921
Durban
Durban3 stops$2,008

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December

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$860
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  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Sydney to South Africa?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to South Africa with an airline and back to Sydney with another airline.

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    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to South Africa from Sydney up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to South Africa

  • Morning departure is around 24% more expensive than an evening flight, on average*.
*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

Top 5 airlines serving from Sydney to South Africa

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Sydney to South Africa? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.2
Singapore AirlinesOverall score based on 1479 reviews
8.1comfort
7.8food
8.7crew
8.2entertainment
8.4boarding
Airline reviews

Good flight. The food was served a bit late, hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

10.0 ExcellentYM, Apr 2024MEL - SIN
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Good flight. The food was served a bit late, hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

Great to have actual hot tastey meal on a flight. Well done

Excellent meal served with real utensils, cardboard served hot meals instead of plastic utensils and plastic covers. Quick service, friendly and accommodating stewards.

I commend the flight attendants on our SFO-SIN flight who went above and beyond to provide us with extra snacks and food. This type of service makes the flight experience personal and awesome.

It was a great flight Food was great Crew was spectacular

In general good, but the machine seems to be long in operation and some functions were restricted as e. g. Adjusting of seats.

Seating cramped; close to toilet, foul smelling and noisy, very unhygienic and disease risk Free and paid Wi-Fi NOT accessible at all - misleading advertising Very expensive sunglasses disappeared from back seat pouch. Coffee disgusting and cold

People were so nice! Economy seats were small and cramped feeling for me. I’m slender and 6 feet tall

I did not like anything. Flight experience was bad overall.

The stewardess was very helpful all the way. My seat had an issue with headphones and after the replaced and gave me a new pair and noticed it was the seat I got a new chair to sit and a great ride back home

Flight from Dubai to Zagreb very bad cabin crew. Bad food

Food is really bad, not to the Emirates standards. Coming out of Houston airport is very confusing,

Excellent airlines. I highly recommend using Emirates. Its my number 1 airlines

Food was not eadable. Testless and not apealing. order for indian vegitarian, recived spice less. combination of main course and side iteams are far away from traditonal food, serve less iteams. , but eadoble. Thanks

Serving food took so long . Almost time close to lend. Plus during landing air pressure in cabin cuss ear blocked took long time to unblock.

The amenities offered in the Business class is far away less compared with other Air Companies. Emirates is going down in the competition pricing the same value as Qatar airways for example.

On both legs of my trips (Jhb - Dxb and Dxb - Jhb) the entertainment system did not work.

I wish any of the US airlines operated like Emirates

We had a connecting flight which is got delayed they didn’t transfer me to another flight and up I have to by 3 new tickets and I have to pay extra luggage fees cost me rs 100000

Over all good service but from Dubai to Delhi horrible service. Not happy

Following a marathon flight riddled by delays and changes from Santiago, Chile, my flight to Melbourne from Sydney was on schedule but I was transferred to the next flight. The reason by ticketing and the floor manager was I missed the entry to flight by one minute! That's right, the emphasised that if I was 1 minute earlier I would be on the flight. I asked what was the point them emphasising 1minute overdue and how that helped me or the situation. They didn't care at all. Replying that if it was one minute earlier they would've done something and smirking delivering the information. Australian's do call Australia home, Qantas calls Australian's suckers.

1) crackly headphone jack 2) one of the emergency seats recline. Usually second row does. But in this case neither did 3) food was scrambled eggs or fruit. 4) fruit should not be the option to eggs 5)miserable unpleasant crew not a smile. Thought that was a virgin thing

Qantas are unable to service and unfit for purpose, they cannot transport Australians on time to overseas destinations. On top of the inflated ticketing, the Sydney flight to Santiago was impacted because the plane was delayed arriving and then further bungling by Qantas admitting the ground new ground crew in charge of cleaning were not trained. The impact on passengers with connecting flights was tremendous and long ques of frustrated passengers waiting for rescheduling. **Qantas has become the Australian Spirit of disappointment**

The staff we fantastic and seemed to work very well with each other

Business lounge in Melbourne mediocre. Look at Emirates or Qatar, Qantas! Great friendly crew. Food was good but Emirates is a level above. Business seat good. But can’t compare to Qatar. Main reason for booking Qantas is loyalty and terrific connection via Perth to LHR.

I was pleasantly surprised with my flight to LA with Qantas. Although seats were not the roomies, service was excellent.

The service and smooth landing. Food was delicious and the staff was friendly. We arrived earlier than scheduled.

Wonderful crew, good food. Absolutely loved the wine spritz and wish I could buy it!

Don’t like last minute airline change. Not able to choose seat earlier.

It's only a short trip from Sydney to Melbourne, which i have done many times. The trip met my expectations

The food could be better, the beef was quite tough. The crew were friendly and helpful on this flight, which has not being my experience on other Ethiopian flights.

The crew were extremely unfriendly. The plane was dirty and the entertainment system did not work, so they did not even give out earphones to anyone.

The flight was one hour late. The food is mediocre and the screen was broken

Seat in front of my wife was broken so it reclined further than normal and without having to push the recline button so my wife had absolutely no room the entire 17 hour flight. My seat was broken and wouldn't recline at all. Also.. my tray table was sticky and dirty right away before I even used it. Also...the floor in the back of the plane from our row of seats on back was totally soaked and both times we landed water came rushing out of the food/servant area like a flood onto the same already wet carpet. It got everything wet that was placed around our feet...including our shoes and socks.

Flight was smooth but unnecessary long because we had to refuel at FCO Rome. Air hostesses service and response to call light could be better. Both planes were old with broken seat arms and toilets. Why Africans had to be given the farthest Gates is what baffles me and why we have to pay for Aisle seats I found really strange. Is there ever an end to ripping people off even after paying over $2300 for one seat.

Same but worse than international. The inter African flights are worse.

Entertainment was very poor. Couldn’t watch anything. Ear pieces were the wrong type .

Food was horrible. Our flight was not comfortable due to turbulence, seats was not comfortable, Very tight barely can not move anywhere.

The food really sucks And they really need to work on entertainment The movie selection is herendous .

Hot, uncomfortable and very rough take off and landing. Very regrettable.

1st of all on February 27th Abu Dhabi to Delhi flight the seat wasn't comfortable at all, coming back the Lounge at Abu Dhabi didn't have anything. Than the Food in the flight

1st time with. Etihad Airways and it was amazing from check in to crew. Great flight.

Good range of movies but lacking decent tv shows. Wifi was really expensive on this flight, considering flights under 7 hours have a $9.99 USD charge for streaming, to jump up to $24.99 for a 7 hour 40 flight seemed a little bit of a rip off. Staff are inattentive, and really need to improve on the customer experience.

It has been a couple of years since I flew with Etihad last, after having a unpleasant experience with them coming out of the pandemic. I can say that the experience has uplifted, but I can’t really rate the service. At Barcelona airport the service was great, with their dedicated Etihad staff very helpful. The onboard experience wasn’t great, not very personalised and it really makes sense why Etihad doesn’t feature in the top 10 2023 Skytrax awards. The crew just seemed to be inattentive and almost absent from the cabin. I felt that I had to keep getting their attention. Even after I’d finished my meal, an hour went by before I had to call them to clear the tray/plate etc.

I WOULD ADVISE NOT TO BOOK YOUR FLIGHT ON KAYAK. THEY SHOW BETTER FARES AND AFTER I BOOKED MINE, I FIND OUT THAT IT DID NOT INCLUDE LUGGAGE. i HAD TO PAY $800 TO CHECK IN MY BAGS.

1.Aircraft Comfort: The aircraft type was quite small with non-reclining, cramped seats that significantly lacked comfort. 2.In-flight Entertainment: There was no provision of in-flight entertainment screens or Wi-Fi for the majority of the flight. 3.Boarding Process at New Abu Dhabi Airport: Despite the move to a new airport, which promised enhanced experiences, the use of buses instead of jet bridges did not meet expectations, causing inconvenience. 4.Gate Change Communication: A last-minute gate change was poorly communicated, resulting in a long and difficult walk.

Ripped off and broken seats in Business class. Seats stink and need to request the staff for additional bedsheets. Crew if very friendly though

Sits are very uncomfortable Don’t feel like to travel in Etihad. It was 1st time we traveled in Etihad now we decided we don’t want to travel in Etihad.

The flight was small and was not cool very bad

Everything was great. Cabin Crew was awesome and very helpful. Thank you so much.

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Recent return flight deals

20/5Mon
2 stops
48h 20mSYD-JNB
3/6Mon
1 stop
24h 15mJNB-SYD
$1,758
26/5Sun
3 stops
37h 35mSYD-JNB
2/6Sun
1 stop
34h 55mJNB-SYD
$1,763
23/5Thu
directQantas Airways
14h 40mSYD-JNB
5/6Wed
directQantas Airways
11h 50mJNB-SYD
$1,783
23/5Thu
directQantas Airways
14h 40mSYD-JNB
5/6Wed
directQantas Airways
11h 50mJNB-SYD
$1,790
20/5Mon
1 stopEtihad Airways
44h 00mSYD-JNB
3/6Mon
1 stopEtihad Airways
36h 15mJNB-SYD
$1,829
26/5Sun
1 stopEtihad Airways
25h 50mSYD-JNB
2/6Sun
1 stopEtihad Airways
24h 15mJNB-SYD
$1,890
5/6Wed
2 stopsEmirates
32h 25mSYD-JNB
10/6Mon
2 stopsEmirates
33h 00mJNB-SYD
$1,937
26/5Sun
2 stopsEmirates
32h 25mSYD-JNB
2/6Sun
1 stopEmirates
24h 40mJNB-SYD
$1,940
5/9Thu
1 stopSingapore Airlines
20h 05mSYD-JNB
1/10Tue
1 stopSingapore Airlines
32h 10mJNB-SYD
$2,060
13/8Tue
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
26h 25mSYD-CPT
10/9Tue
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
22h 15mCPT-SYD
$2,095

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Recent one-way flight deals

26/5Sun
3 stops
37h 35mSYD-JNB
$860
14/5Tue
3 stops
37h 35mSYD-JNB
$877
28/5Tue
1 stopEtihad Airways
44h 00mSYD-JNB
$1,057
25/5Sat
1 stopEtihad Airways
44h 00mSYD-JNB
$1,059
21/10Mon
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
47h 20mSYD-CPT
$1,246
28/5Tue
directQantas Airways
14h 40mSYD-JNB
$1,310
24/5Fri
directQantas Airways
14h 40mSYD-JNB
$1,376
14/5Tue
1 stopSingapore Airlines
20h 05mSYD-JNB
$1,719
29/9Sun
2 stopsEmirates
32h 25mSYD-JNB
$1,735
15/5Wed
1 stopEmirates
47h 25mSYD-CPT
$10,987

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Last minute flights from Sydney to South Africa

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28/4Sun
multi-stopEmirates
36h 15mSYD-JNB
5/5Sun
multi-stopEmirates
35h 00mJNB-SYD
$1,942
28/4Sun
multi-stopEmirates
42h 15mSYD-JNB
5/5Sun
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48h 35mJNB-SYD
$1,948
28/4Sun
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5/5Sun
multi-stop
34h 55mJNB-SYD
$1,971
28/4Sun
multi-stop
35h 20mSYD-JNB
5/5Sun
multi-stop
39h 15mJNB-SYD
$1,982
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35h 20mSYD-JNB
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34h 15mJNB-SYD
$2,367

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Sydney - South Africa Flights

Departure:

Sydney (SYD)Australia

Return flight deals:

South Africa - Sydney

Cabin classes:

$7,486
$3,694
$1,732